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Re: TSG book club

Okay it seems that we have quite a few people on board for Cloud Atlas already so how about we go ahead and make that the first book we read. I will tweet and post a Facebook update about this Forum tomorrow to see if we can draw some more people in. If you know of anyone in the TSG community that would be interested tell them to post here or to message me on Facebook or Twitter. With any luck maybe we can get this started next week. I also think I'm going to make a Facebook group so updates can be seen there as well.

Re: TSG book club

Just saw this on twitter.
I'm all for it! =D

So if I understood correctly, we start reading next week and finish some time in October, at which point the Covenant will have a reunion to discuss the book [strike:wst2cxe6]and summon the Ancient Ones[/strike:wst2cxe6], right?

In any case, count me in! Now, I just have to actually find a copy of the book =P

Re: TSG book club

I just had this thought that I wanted to throw out there. Should we have some questions prepared before we read the book to think about, so that we have more to discuss at the end of the month. Also, I was thinking it might be good to have a thread where we could place things we wanted to discuss as we go about reading the book.

So for instance, I could post something like "at the end of chapter two, why do you think character A killed character B and then immediately went to make a sandwich?" The point of the thread wouldn't necessarily be to then discuss, but maybe would just be a place to collect questions or interesting topics that come up, since a month could be a rather long time to try to remember all the interesting things that happen in the story, and it would give people a chance to reread sections that were found interesting, confusing, etc to someone else or that maybe we just read and passed over without really giving it much thought.

What do you all think about this idea? I'm immagining it as one thread per book perhaps so as to not get too cluttered.

Re: TSG book club

Aww I understand though, I want this to be fun not something you feel forced to do each month. As for how long we will have to read each book I think it would be best to change that up depending on how long the book is. Cloud Atlas is a decent length book, about 500 pages, so I'm thinking 5 weeks from when we start would be a good amount of time to finish the book. Do you guys think this is enough time? Too much time? I know some of us don't have much time to read so I want to make sure we all have plenty of time but I also don't want the speed readers of the group to have to wait around too long.

As for finding the books Amazon is usually a good place to find cheap books, I've probably bought 75% of my books there. Half price books is also a very good place to find cheap books.

If you cannot afford to buy the book then you could always check your local library they can usually help you find a copy if you talk to them, you might have to go to another library to get it but you will have it.

Finally as for preparing questions if you guys don't feel like that will be too much work I am all for it. I just want this to be as simple as possible. What I planed on doing is just taking notes as I read the book then use that to think up questions and talking points for when we meet up to talk about the book.